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TL/DR - should UFC fighters get paid for the continued airing and streaming of their fights and highlights?
Actors and actresses get paid "residuals" which is pay for the continued re-airing of content.
For example the cast of Friends still make roughly $20mil/year in pay from the income generated from syndication/streaming income.
Here’s How Much Jennifer Aniston and Other Actors Get Paid for Their Reruns https://share.google/atFfxnd58dm3ZZ0LL
UFC takes advantage of a loophole of sorts by way of their antiquated contract terms which coerce fighters to sign away their likeness, I believe in perpetuity, for the UFC to use however they please including advertising.
Any other industry would have to pay the people in their ads and pay royalties for continuing to air any content in which people are prominently featured, particularly when those people are the main reason that viewers will watch and purchase content.
My wife still gets checks in the mail for acting work she did 20+ years ago, they HAVE TO pay that out by law (even if the check is for less than the postage) for any shows that continue to air (actors get fucked via streaming but that is a different discussion)
Nate Quarry once discussed in an interview that while
A) yes it sucked that he only got paid $50k to fight Rich Franklin and get brutally KOed, the much more painful kick in the pants was
B) having to watch the highlight footage of him getting brutally KTFO air on every PPV and probably a majority of UFC advertising for a decade - and not getting paid a single penny for that advertising promotional content of his likeness.
Even college athletes have FIINALLY gotten to a point where they get compensated for the use of their likeness, name, merchandise, and jersey sales, etc, which makes the universities MILLIONS of dollars.
Fair is fair. ... at least it should be
even if the world is still a big fucking corrupt mess, at least attempts have been made to improve the exploitation of athletes - but in all of those other cases the athletes achieved this through strikes, collective bargaining agreements and UNIONS- which the UFC has gone to great lengths to crush in MMA.
Actors and actresses get paid "residuals" which is pay for the continued re-airing of content.
For example the cast of Friends still make roughly $20mil/year in pay from the income generated from syndication/streaming income.
Here’s How Much Jennifer Aniston and Other Actors Get Paid for Their Reruns https://share.google/atFfxnd58dm3ZZ0LL
UFC takes advantage of a loophole of sorts by way of their antiquated contract terms which coerce fighters to sign away their likeness, I believe in perpetuity, for the UFC to use however they please including advertising.
Any other industry would have to pay the people in their ads and pay royalties for continuing to air any content in which people are prominently featured, particularly when those people are the main reason that viewers will watch and purchase content.
My wife still gets checks in the mail for acting work she did 20+ years ago, they HAVE TO pay that out by law (even if the check is for less than the postage) for any shows that continue to air (actors get fucked via streaming but that is a different discussion)
Nate Quarry once discussed in an interview that while
A) yes it sucked that he only got paid $50k to fight Rich Franklin and get brutally KOed, the much more painful kick in the pants was
B) having to watch the highlight footage of him getting brutally KTFO air on every PPV and probably a majority of UFC advertising for a decade - and not getting paid a single penny for that advertising promotional content of his likeness.
Even college athletes have FIINALLY gotten to a point where they get compensated for the use of their likeness, name, merchandise, and jersey sales, etc, which makes the universities MILLIONS of dollars.
Fair is fair. ... at least it should be
even if the world is still a big fucking corrupt mess, at least attempts have been made to improve the exploitation of athletes - but in all of those other cases the athletes achieved this through strikes, collective bargaining agreements and UNIONS- which the UFC has gone to great lengths to crush in MMA.
